综合一区欧美国产,99国产麻豆免费精品,九九精品黄色录像,亚洲激情青青草,久久亚洲熟妇熟,中文字幕av在线播放,国产一区二区卡,九九久久国产精品,久久精品视频免费

USEUROPEAFRICAASIA 中文雙語Fran?ais
World
Home / World / Americas

$560,000 raised for memorial scholarship

By CAROLINE BERG in New York | China Daily | Updated: 2013-04-20 02:35

It took only 10 minutes on Wednesday for the Campaign for Boston University Board of Trustees to raise $560,000 for a scholarship in memory of Lu Lingzi, the Chinese graduate student from Shenyang, capital city of Liaoning province, who was killed in the Boston Marathon bombings.

"We are grieving and at a loss for words to describe the pain and sadness we are experiencing following the sudden passing of our dear daughter, Lingzi," Lu's family said in a statement given to Boston University.

$560,000 raised for memorial scholarship

A photo of Lu Lingzi at a memorial in Boston, Massachusetts. More than 100,000 Weibo micro-bloggers mourned her death, according to the New Yorker magazine’s website. Shannon Stapleton / reuters

"She was the joy of our lives."

University trustee Kenneth Feld spearheaded the Lu Lingzi Scholarship Fund, which was raised in response to thousands of offers of help from alumni, friends and others around the world.

The seven-member committee created the scholarship in accordance with the preferences of the Lu family, who will travel to Boston this week from their home in Shenyang.

Lu grew up in an intellectual family. She was admitted to a highly selective experimental public facility, where she studied from seventh through 12th grade.

Local media say Lu scored the second highest in her class to go to Beijing Institute of Technology.

Lu started at Boston University last fall to study statistics. Friends and teachers remember the 23-year-old for her smile, piano playing and love of food, which she enjoyed posting photos of on Facebook.

Monday's tragedy sparked a huge outflow of grief among students of the class of 2014, the year Lu would have graduated.

More than 6,000 members of the BU Alumni Association used social media to express their condolences, according to a report in the university newspaper, BU Today, and more than 100,000 Weibo micro-bloggers mourned her death, according to the New Yorker magazine's website.

"We are humbled by the compassion, caring and love we have received from people all over the world," Lu's family told the university. "We wish to extend our thoughts, prayers and sympathy to the other victims of this tragedy and to their families."

Lu's family also expressed gratitude for the assistance it has received from the Chinese government, the US State Department, the Boston Police Department and Boston University.

US Secretary of State John Kerry said in a statement on Thursday that the State Department has been in contact with Lu's family.

"We stand ready to provide whatever appropriate assistance we can to the family members of foreign nationals in the aftermath of this despicable act of terror,'' Kerry said.

The marathon explosions also killed Martin Richard, 8, of Dorchester, Massachusetts, and Krystle Campbell, 29, of Arlington, Massachusetts.

Members of the university's extended community asked through Facebook, Twitter and several US consulates in China what they can do to honor students who were injured by the blasts and to memorialize Monday's tragic events, according to Feld.

"A scholarship fund in her name will be there forever," Feld said in a story in BU Today. "People can contribute to something that is ongoing."

The scholarship recognizes that everyone leaves his or her own legacy, and it also honors the university's connection to China, which increasingly sends its students to study there. It welcomed 2,065 of these students this year, Feld said.

An impromptu memorial of flowers and other gifts for Lu took shape at the base of the Free at Last sculpture on the campus.

Most Viewed in 24 Hours
Copyright 1995 - . All rights reserved. The content (including but not limited to text, photo, multimedia information, etc) published in this site belongs to China Daily Information Co (CDIC). Without written authorization from CDIC, such content shall not be republished or used in any form. Note: Browsers with 1024*768 or higher resolution are suggested for this site.
License for publishing multimedia online 0108263

Registration Number: 130349
FOLLOW US
汉川市| 新津县| 双牌县| 孟州市| 板桥市| 吉林省| 民勤县| 晋城| 邓州市| 邢台市| 汶川县| 和林格尔县| 福州市| 柳河县| 泰和县| 翁牛特旗| 大理市| 铜梁县| 仙居县| 竹北市| 新田县| 秦安县| 海阳市| 邛崃市| 漾濞| 鄂尔多斯市| 常德市| 茶陵县| 精河县| 盐津县| 深泽县| 新沂市| 怀集县| 阿拉尔市| 金坛市| 布尔津县| 通化县| 偃师市| 镇宁| 镇宁| 武义县|